The journal Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics is published by Helsinki University Press on behalf of the Department of Aesthetics at CU FA. The new issue released on 18 March 2025, includes four research papers and three critical notes. The journal is published in open access format, available on estetikajournal.org.
The journal opens with David Collins’s paper, “Expanding Davies’s Pragmatic Constraint: A Pragmatist Principle for Philosophizing about Art” – the winner of 2023 Fabian Dorsch Essay Prize awarded by the European Society for Aesthetics. In this paper, Collins aims to strengthen the methodological principle that the philosophy of art should be answerable to artistic practice.
In “Multisensory Experience of Paintings”, René Jagnow draws a connection between paintings that depict atmospheres and genuinely multisensory experiences, which he characterizes in terms of fusion. The phenomenology of painting experience is also at the center of “Imaginative Variations: A Phenomenological Analysis of Imaginary Worlds in Experiences of Visual Art”, co-authored by Anders Essom-Stenz and Tone Roald. Drawing on qualitative research into intense experiences with visual art, the paper examines various forms of imagination involved in such encounters.
In “Some Intriguing Works That Read Like Comics”, Nicolas Greliche presents a series of visual challenges to prevailing definitions of comics. He proposes shifting the discussion from the category of comics to that of “works that read like comics”. Anton Killin’s “Intra- and Interindividual Aesthetic Disagreement” responds to Uku Tooming’s 2023 paper published in Estetika. Luca Marchetti offers a critique of the claim that virtual reality experiences can be described in terms of seeing-in – a view presented by Grant Tavinor in The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality (2022). Finally, in “Sharing and Conflict of Perspectives”, Jakub Čapek critically engages with Emmanuel Alloa’s recent book, The Share of Perspectives (2025).
The journal Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics is an open-access journal following triple-anonymous peer review process. The journal publishes research articles that engage with the diverse and rich traditions of aesthetics in Europe and beyond. It is freely accessible at estetikajournal.org.
Contact: Tereza Hadravová, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (tereza.hadravova@ff.cuni.cz).
